When we first put up our jobs-page looking for staff, http://ve.net/jobs.htm, we did so only because we were looking for more local labor here in Venezuela. We are expanding quite heavily.

However, we sometimes receive applications from netizens in other countries, and not just from Venezuelans living in Venezuela.

This is not a problem.
We can still work with you.
Even if you lived in Venezuela (which is a great country to live in, BTW), you would in many cases continue to work from home. We don't need everyone to show up at an office, and several of our jobs in design and as webmasters can be done from anywhere with an Internet connection.

However, as a Venezuelan company, we obviously pay the prevailing market-rate salaries for the Venezuelan job market to everyone we employ.
So if we hire you, you will be making a Venezuelan wage.
The currency here is called "bolivars", or in short form "bs.", and is at the time of writing (Summer 97) exchanged at roughly 485-490 per dollar. The minimum wage is around Bs 75.000 in this country. We pay Bs 100.000 to Bs 200.000 per month, depending on what you do, or Bs 1.600 per hour of freelance work.

We always have work for you. So if you can work 1 or 2 hours a day, we'll send you that. If you can work 10 hours a day, we'll send you that instead. The downside is that unless you live in Venezuela, where prices are very low, you are unlikely to find our wages attractive.

We have lots of work and the large part of it is for American companies. But they outsource to us down here, in the third world, for one reason only: Because our wages are low. So we don't bill much, and as a consequence, we can't pay much either.

Bottomline, to sum it up:
Yes, we can hire you.
But we must pay you the same as everyone else.

If you live in Venezuela, our salaries are OK.
But if you live elsewhere, you may want to think twice.
So if still interested, please fill out one or more of the following forms to get started:

'Link Crusader' application

Webmaster application

Web-graphics and HTML coder application

Perl programmer application